Week Six

Week 6 Exam

Part 1: Define each of the following terms as they are used in the context of the study of personality (20 pts.)

|The unconscious |All the thoughts,ideas, and feelings of which we are not and normally cannot become aware. |
|Collective unconscious |The level of unconscious that is inherited and common to all members of a species. |
|Unconditional positive regard |The full acceptance and love of another person regardless of his or her behavior. |
|Extrovert |An outgoing person who is more interested in other people and what goes on around him/her than in |
| |his/her own thoughts or feelings |
|Persona |The mask we wear to represent ourselves to others. |
|Compensation |The person 's effort to overcome imagined or real personal weaknesses. |
|Fixation |A partial or complete halt at some point in the individual 's psychosexual development. |
|Personality trait |Dimensions or characteristics on which people differ in distinctive ways. |
|Rational individuals |People who regulate their actions by thinking and feeling. |
|Introvert |People who usually focus on their own thoughts and feelings. |

Part 2: Complete the following sentences: (20 pts.)

|1. According to Freud, fully adult behavior is governed not only by reality, but also by the individual 's conscience or by the |
|moral standards developed through interaction with parents and society. |
|2. In Freud’s theory, the only personality